Mali: WHO doctor seized by ‘unidentified assailants’, as UNHCR raises alarm over continuing violence
New York, USA, 25 January 2023-/African Media Agency(AMA)/-The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a statement deploring the abduction of a doctor working for the UN health agency in the town of Menaka, in eastern Mali, by unknown assailants on Monday. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a tweet posted on Tuesday that WHO was working with local […]
Standard Chartered Announces EUR 149 Million Social Loan Financing To Build A New Hospital In Angola
Standard Chartered announces EUR 149 million of Social Loan financing for the Angolan Ministry of Finance to build a new hospital in Kilamba, with a specialist burns ward. This is the government of Angola’s first Social Loan. The financing is backed by Export Credit Agency (ECA) UK Export Finance[1] (UKEF) and ASGC UK Limited[2] is the contractor […]
A Decade Of Progress Is Under Threat As Overall African Governance Flatlines, The 2022 Ibrahim Index Of African Governance Finds
Despite a marginal improvement over the past decade (2012-2021), the 2022 Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) shows that governance in Africa has flatlined in the three years since 2019. Improvements in human development and economic opportunities are being undermined by an increasingly perilous security situation and widespread democratic backsliding, as the continent struggles to […]
“Let Us Act To Transform Africa’s Cities”—African Development Bank President To African Mayors
African Development Bank Group President, Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina, assures mayors at the African Mayoral Leadership Initiative (AMALI) of the Bank’s support to creatively and sustainably transform their cities By 2050, the number of people living in African cities is expected to double from about 600 million to 1.2 billion, representing the most rapid rate […]
Heifer International To Partner With Mastercard To Empower Millions Of Smallholder Farmers In Africa
Heifer International and Mastercard will partner to deploy Mastercard Community Pass, an innovative solution that helps connect smallholder farmers to financial and agricultural value-chain ecosystems. Heifer International, a global non-profit organization, and Mastercard have announced an agreement to connect millions of smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa to Mastercard’s Community Pass – a digital platform that makes it […]
A Pivotal Moment For The 2030 NTD Road Map Targets
By Dr Ibrahima Socé Fall, Director of Neglected Tropical Diseases Department at WHO. On my first World NTD Day since being appointed Director of WHO’s Global Program for Neglected Tropical Diseases, I feel at once the great honour of my position, at the head, so to speak, of a truly global movement and community, as […]
Digitizing Africa: Key To Stronger Institutions
By Kavazeua Katjomuise The writer is a Senior Economic Affairs Officer and leader of the Policy Analysis and Coordination team in the UN Office of the Special Adviser on Africa (UN – OSAA). I recently overheard a conversation among three young people at a café in an African city. It was a passionate discussion on the […]
Uganda Launches its First Oil Drilling Programme
The Kingfisher field is part of a $10bn scheme to develop Uganda’s oil reserves under Lake Albert in the west of the country and build a vast pipeline to ship the crude to international markets via an Indian Ocean port in Tanzania. The president [Yoweri Museveni] has officially commissioned the start of drilling campaign on […]
Looking at a Decade of Uber’s Operations in Africa
The ride-hailing service entered Johannesburg in August 2013 – one of its earliest forays outside the US – and now operates in dozens of cities across eight African countries. But if Uber plans to celebrate this milestone, it will do so under a cloud of controversy. Many of the ruthless practices highlighted in last year’s […]
France has Exactly One Month to Remove its Troops from Burkina Faso
The military government of Burkina Faso has demanded the departure of French troops from the country, according to the government press agency Agence d’Information du Burkina (AIB). France has exactly one month to remove its troops from Burkina Faso, according to the terms of the 2018 agreement, AIB reported, citing sources. The military government “denounced […]
